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Ex-serviceman Sleeps First Full Night Since Crushing Truck Accident Thanks To Poppy Funds A former soldier severely injured during military service can now get a full night’s sleep, thanks to Poppy Funds, teamwork and the generosity of the community. The RSA National Office, RSA Upper Hutt and...

The RNZRSA, Mururoa Nuclear Veterans Group INC and Veterans’ Affairs are conducting a pilot of forums. The purpose is to inform and enlighten Mururoa test Veterans of the progress being made towards...

The National Commemoration of the Battle of Passchendaele was held at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington today. The event marked the 100th anniversary of the attack on Bellevue Spur at the Battle of Passchendaele – one of the costliest and bloodiest engagements in New Zealand’s...

Ex-serviceman Sleeps First Full Night Since Crushing Truck Accident Thanks To Poppy Funds A former soldier severely injured during military service can now get a full night’s sleep, thanks to Poppy Funds, teamwork and the generosity of the community. The RSA National Office, RSA Upper Hutt and...

With over 95 years of history, the Poppy Day Appeal is one of the oldest nationwide appeals conducted by a voluntary welfare organisation in New Zealand. The RSA Poppy is truly a national icon. FRENCH POPPY LADY’S REPRESENTATIVE VISITS THE RSA It was a French woman, Madame E. Guérin, who conceived...

The use of the red poppy – the Flanders’ Poppy – as a symbol of remembrance derives from the fact that the poppy was the first plant to re-emerge from the churned up soil of soldiers’ graves during the First World War. It was a poem by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian medical officer,...

At 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918, the Armistice marked the moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front. The "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" thereafter became universally associated with the remembrance of those who had died in the First World War. 1919: Introduction...